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Visual Components 5.0 launches with faster simulation, expanded connectivity and advanced robot offline programming to support digital factory planning.
13 March, 2026
Espoo, Finland – March 12, 2026 – Visual Components today announced the launch of Visual Components 5.0, a major upgrade to its 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming software platform.
The update helps manufacturers design and optimize production systems in a fast-changing industrial landscape, one where planning decisions increasingly start in the digital world. Visual Components 5.0 arrives as manufacturers worldwide race to reshore production and automate operations amid supply chain shifts and labor shortages. It provides an all-in-one digital environment for factory layout planning, process simulation, robot offline programming, and virtual commissioning, enabling companies to test and refine their ideas in a risk-free virtual space before committing on the shop floor.
Visual Components 5.0 builds on the company’s two and a half decades of simulation expertise with a focus on speed, flexibility, and real-world integration. It remains “the fastest way from concept to reality” for factory planners, now with:
These upgrades enable manufacturers to bridge digital and physical production more seamlessly, integrating automation and control systems into virtual models to validate processes with greater confidence.
With 5.0, we’ve focused on what really matters: helping teams move faster with less risk. It’s built to support real decisions, under real constraints, and to bring confidence back into the manufacturing planning process.
